ATU falls short, 31-24ARKADELPHIA — The Ouachita Baptist Tigers were in a giving mood Saturday night, and the Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys did all they could to take down the 13th-ranked team in NCAA Division II football. OBU led 21-3 at halftime, but three fumbles and one interception almost cost the Tigers their first loss of the season. But Arkansas Tech couldn’t convert on its final drive and lost 31-24 at A.U. Williams Field. Ouachita Baptist (2-0, 1-0 Great Amer...

Ozark soccer nets first ASC winCLARKSVILLE — University of the Ozarks Lady Eagles had their best effort of the season Saturday in a 3-1 win over Schreiner University in American Southwest Conference play. Ozarks (1-8-0, 1-3-0 ASC) outshot Schreiner (0-7-1, 0-4-0 ASC) 11-6 in the match and had their highest scoring output of the season. Freshman forward Haley Gilliam got things started for Ozarks with a goal in the 16th minute. The speedy Gilliam raced past one defender in t...

Suns fall to Harding, host Pack the Stands tonightSEARCY—Mollie Arnold made 18 kills and 15 digs to lead the Harding Lady Bisons to a come-from-behind, five-set volleyball win over the Arkansas Tech Golden Suns at Rhodes Field House in Searcy on Tuesday. The Lady Bisons (9-3 overall, 2-0 GAC) won 25-16, 24-26, 18-25, 26-24, 15-12 to hand the Golden Suns (9-5, 1-1) their first-ever loss in GAC volleyball action. Arkansas Tech was 16-0 during the inaugural GAC regular season in 2011. The Suns p...

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Suns tied for 5th at NSU ClassicTAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Emilie Alpe carded an opening-round 76 (+4), tying for seventh place, while Rebecka Surtevall was one shot behind with an opening-round 77 (+5) to tie for ninth place as the Arkansas Tech Golden Suns finished day one of competition at the NSU Golf Classic tied for fifth place overall. Harding’s Brittany Marquez shot a 71 to lead all golfers, while host Northeastern State’s opening-round 298 gives them an eight-point lead aft...

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Lady Eagles suffer hard road lossesCLARKSVILLE — The Howard Payne University women’s soccer team took a 3-2 win Saturday over the University of the Ozarks Lady Eagles in American Southwest Conference action. Howard Payne (1-4-0, 1-1-0 ASC) allowed just one shot while recording 26 of their own. Howard Payne scored in the 9th minute to hold a 1-0 lead. Howard Payne would then score in the 56th minute and then add their third goal in the 75th minute. Mary Eoff had eight saves for ...

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West Coast teams in bind for BCSLITTLE ROCK —Three weeks into the college football season, the national landscape has changed dramatically on two major fronts. Stanford 21, USC 14 tightened the screws on the possibility of a Pac-12 team participating in the BCS title game and opened wide the competition for the Heisman Trophy. The upset of the Trojans, combined with stumbles by teams thought to be the best in the Big Ten, makes it extremely likely that the Southeastern Confe...

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HSU Reddies dominate ATU Wonder Boys 73-34Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys head coach Steve Mullins said he thought his football team went through good preparation — particularly on defense — for its Great American Conference opener against the Henderson State Reddies Saturday night. HSU started the game by returning the opening kickoff for a touchdown, and the offensive onslaught was on. The Reddies scored more than 60 points for the second time in three football games this season — 56 in t...

HSU Reddies rout ATU Wonder Boys 73-34Reddies rout Wonder Boys By Sean Ingram sportseditor@couriernews.com Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys head coach Steve Mullins said he thought his football team went through good preparation — particularly on defense — for its Great American Conference opener against the Henderson State Reddies. HSU started the game by returning the opening kickoff for a touchdown, and the offensive onslaught was on. The Reddies scored more than 60 points for the sec...

Defense leads No. 1 Alabama past Arkansas 52-0FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — Tyler Wilson had seen all he could handle with a minute left in Arkansas’ 52-0 loss to No. 1 Alabama when he asked to speak to the media afterward. Injured players don’t normally talk after games for the Razorbacks, but Wilson’s case was different. The senior quarterback, who missed the game with a head injury, felt the season slipping away Saturday. Last week’s shocking loss to Louisiana-Monroe was bad enough. What Wilson ...

The Reddies are coming to visit ATUThere’s something eerily similar about Arkansas Tech’s opponent this weekend — the Henderson State Reddies — and the top-ranked NCAA Division I team in the country, the Alabama Crisom Tide. Both wear identical uniforms — down to the numbers on the helmets; both are ranked among the NCAA’s top offensive football teams in the nation; and both are coming to Arkansas on Saturday. Wait, here’s something not similar: the Crimson Tide doesn’t have th...

Upset!LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Kolton Browning made the most of his return to Arkansas. Browning’s 16-yard touchdown run on fourth-and-one lifted Louisiana-Monroe to a 34-31 overtime win over the No. 8 Razorbacks on Saturday night. Browning accounted for 481 yards of total offense and four touchdowns to lead the Warhawks (1-0) to their first win over a Southeastern Conference team since defeating Alabama in 2007. The junior made his first career start in ...

Arkansas’ Smith files Chapter 7 bankruptcy LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Arkansas coach John L. Smith filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition Thursday for debts he incurred through real estate investments in Kentucky. Smith told The Associated Press in July he expected to make the filing but also was trying to avoid it. Documents filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Western District of Arkansas show Smith has assets of between $1 million and $10 million and debts of between $10 million and $50 mil...

Wonder Boys fall to Miners 27-19It wasn’t enough that the Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys hosted a senior-laden Missouri S&T Miners football team on a Thursday at Thone Stadium at Buerkle Field. Mother Nature had to make her presence felt, and it lasted two hours and 15 minutes. Tied 7-7, Missouri S&T came out of the weather delay and blocked Trevor Pinkston’s punt that turned into the go-ahead touchdown for the Miners, who held off the Wonder Boys 27-19. “You don’t use that as an...

Wonder Boys host Missouri S&T tonightArkansas Tech University will look for its first 2-0 start since the 2009 football season when the Wonder Boys host the Missouri S&T Miners tonight at Thone Stadium at Buerkle Field. Kickoff between ATU (1-0) and Missouri S&T (1-0) is set for 7 p.m. Arkansas Tech and Missouri S&T both opened their 2012 season with non-conference wins last Saturday. The Wonder Boys got three field goals from Trevor Pinkston and a late interception by Jacob Midy...

Special GAC, national honors for Tech punter-kickerAfter going 3-for-3 in field goals in Arkansas Tech’s season-opening win over Bacone, and twice pinning the Warriors inside their own 20 with precision punting, Wonder Boys sophomore kicker/punter Trevor Pinkston earned the Great American Conference Special Teams Player of the Week award as well as a national Special Teams Player of the Week award by NCAA.com. “I couldn’t be more proud of him,” Arkansas Tech head coach Steve Mullins said. “He’...

Wonder Boys find a way to win season openerThe Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys did something Saturday night they were not able to do eight times in 2011: They found a way to win when the odds weren't in their favor. Late in the fourth quarter, after ATU's Trevor Pinkston hit what turned out to be the game-winning 25-yard field goal to put the Wonder Boys on top 16-14, the Bacone College Warriors regained possession with 3:22 remaining. Starting at its 24, Bacone traversed downfield until it ...

Arkansas eyes statement game in season openerFAYETTEVILLE (AP) — It’s not often that a Heisman Trophy hopeful calls a season opener against an FCS opponent a “statement game.” For so many reasons, though, Arkansas quarterback Tyler Wilson said exactly that about the No. 10 Razorbacks’ game against Jacksonville State on Saturday night. The game is far more than a garden-variety season opener for Arkansas, which went through an offseason of upheaval following coach Bobby Petrino’s April 1 ...

Wonder Boys kick off 98th season todayFinally, the No. 1 offense and No. 1 defense gets to hit somebody else. Finally, we’ll see how all that preparation and hours in the film room has paid off. Finally, they’ll get to show off the new turf at Thone Stadium at Buerkle Field. And finally, it’s time to put 2011 away for good. The Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys will kick off their 98th season of football when they face Bacone College at 6 p.m. today. “This has been a fun group to coach,” ...

New players, same goal for men’s soccer teamCLARKSVILLE — Despite nearly half the team made of freshmen, University of the Ozarks’ head men’s soccer coach John Cossaboon’s goals remain the same entering the 2012 season, which begins Friday against Central Baptist College. Ten first-year players won’t change the veteran coach’s thinking regarding postseason play, he explained. Ozarks was edged out of the playoffs last season after finishing with a 5-7-1 conference mark. With just one mor...

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